Amelia Leavesley
Graduate Researcher
- Room: G01
- Building: Baldwin Spencer Building (113)
Biography
Amelia is an urban sustainability scholar, teacher and former consultant who is passionate about healthy cities and good governance. She is currently completing her PhD on multilevel waste governance in Australian cities at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne. Her PhD research explores the multilevel governance aspects of Australia’s waste crisis, focussing on the role of local governments in scaling action on municipal waste. Her research asks how sustainable municipal waste management outcomes can be facilitated in multilevel governance systems.
Amelia also works as a Research Fellow in Urban Climate Leadership at the Melbourne Centre for Cities, where she is co-developing and delivering a regional training programme for city-level climate action in the Asia Pacific. Her work builds on over 5 years of research experience working on urban climate policy, multilevel governance, city networking and climate action with local governments across the world. Amelia also brings 10 years of industry experience as a strategic engagement and communications consultant, working with multiple levels of government to help deliver major projects in water, planning, transport and waste.
She holds a Master of Environment (Education and Social Change) from the University of Melbourne and the University of Copenhagen (postgraduate exchange), a Bachelor of Science (Engineering and Environmental Science) from the University of Western Australia.
Additional contributions include working as a co-curator of events at the Living Pavilion Festival (University of Melbourne), supporting the research strategy and content creation for PlaceAgency (University of Melbourne), and contributing to research in nature-based solutions for VIVA-PLAN (University of Copenhagen).
Articles & Reports
- Leavesley, A. (2024) Are cheap plastics the new tobacco? Pursuit. University of Melbourne. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/are-cheap-plastics-the-new-tobacco?in_c=articlelistingblock
- Pejic, D., Leavesley, A., Matsumoto, T., & Acuto, M. (2024). 26. National urban politics and policy: between local, national, and global. Handbook of Urban Politics and Policy, 405.
- Leavesley, A. (2024). Is this the world’s coolest street? Or is the system rigged? Pursuit. University of Melbourne. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/is-this-the-world-s-coolest-street-or-is-the-system-rigged & https://www.facebook.com/unimelb/videos/389712170442012/
- Leavesley, A., Trundle, A., & Oke, C. (2022). Cities and the SDGs: Realities and possibilities of local engagement in global frameworks. Ambio, 1–17.
- Leavesley, A. (2021). Liveable Melbourne a blessing amid weary lockdowns. Pursuit. University of Melbourne.
- Leavesley, A., Oke, C., & Trundle, A. (2021). City climate leadership a model for sustainability. Pursuit. University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b986b2ef8370a2cf3760d51/t/628b24991c071f529ca5438e/1653286068685/State%2Bof%2BPlay_Status_Report_ICLEI%2B2021.pdf
Lynch, A., Oke, C., & Leavesley, A. (2021). State of play: Local governments and city networks accelerating climate action in Australia—Status Report. ICLEI Oceania.
Contributions
Global Covenant of Mayors (2021). Multilevel Climate Action Playbook: For Local and Regional Governments (version 1). Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy. Bonn, Germany. https://www.globalcovenantofmayors.org/press/the-multilevel-climate-action-playbook-for-local-and-regional-governments/
Gulsrud, NM., Raymond, C., & Sharad, A. (2020). Best practice techniques for engaging and listening to diverse voices in the planning and management of urban green infrastructure: Deliverable 2.1. Formas.
Contact
- Email amelia.leavesley@unimelb.edu.au
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